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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has congratulated the people of Iraq on the holding yesterday of the first national parliamentary elections since the country declared victory over Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Dae'sh) terrorists late last year.

The United Nations chief has called for an immediate halt to all hostile acts and provocative actions to “avoid a new conflagration” in the Middle East, following reported exchanges of artillery fire over the Golan Heights.

According to media reports, the Israeli military attacked Iranian military installations in neighbouring Syria in retaliation for an Iranian-instigated rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan.

Congratulating Lebanon on holding parliamentary elections on Sunday , United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the country’s political leaders to work in "a spirit of unity".

In a statement, Mr. Guterres urged the country’s political leaders to present a united front "with a view to furthering the ambitious agenda set out by Lebanon and its international partners.”

Following a decision on Tuesday by the United States to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, the United Nations chief said he was “deeply concerned” by the move, and called on all parties to preserve the deal.

President Donald Trump made the announcement at the White House, and immediately afterwards signed a memorandum to begin reinstating economic sanctions on Iran at “the highest level”.

After several months of hard work and commitment, the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Beirut officially announced the launch of its new redesigned website, at www.unicbeirut.org. Fresh and exciting, the new improved design offers visitors a more pleasant and informative experience while browsing, allowing them to access news related to the UN in general, the Sustainable Development Goals, and UNIC Beirut activities in a straightforward and clear manner.

Thank you, Mr. Chair,

Distinguished delegates,

Politicians in Iraq are working constructively with each other ahead of this month’s parliamentary elections, a senior United Nations official said.

“Elections by their nature are adversarial,” Alice Walpole, one of the top officials at the UN mission in Iraq, told UN News. “One of the challenges in a place like Iraq is to avoid falling back to sectarian hostilities in the run-up to the elections.”

Under the patronage of Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs Pierre Bou Assi, and in collaboration with UNIC Beirut for the fourth year in a row, the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) organized the “AUB-USJ NGO Fair 2018” on 23-24 April at the campuses of the two universities in Beirut.

For the fifth year, the Modern University for Business and Science (MUBS) has organized in cooperation with the United Nations Information Centre in Beirut (UNIC Beirut), the “Young Entrepreneur Contest” at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Beirut.

International donors at a United Nations-European Union humanitarian conference pledged nearly $4.4 billion on Wednesday to fund critical aid programmes in war-torn Syria throughout 2018.

Gathered in the Belgian capital, Brussels, alongside top officials from over 85 countries and organizations, UN and EU leaders also stressed that the stalled UN-led Syrian political negotiations, known as the intra-Syrian talks, must be revived.